“A gentleman from Tennessee...”
Date
1-27-1812
Newspaper
Charleston Courier
Page and Column
Page 3, Column 1
Newspaper Location
Charleston, South Carolina
Serial Number
313
Abstract
Short article that notes that an individual from Tennessee had passed the area of damage described by John C. Edwards and saw nothing that Edwards had described and that Edwards account was incorrect. Notes that the earthquake was felt in Hawkins county of Tennessee but “that no injury was sustained.” Hawkins county is west of Kingsport, Tennessee on the Tennessee Kentucky border.
Transcript
A gentleman from Tennessee, who passed the Warm Springs on the 22d ult. assures us that the account published in the Courier on Saturday last, from the Raleigh Star, of the effects produced by the Earthquake of the 16th of that month, near that place, is, in part, at least, incorrect. The Painted Rock, which is represented in that account to have been thrown from its base into the road leading to the western country, by which the passage of travelers was obstructed was resting very quietly in its naturalized on the 22d, at which time our informant passed it;--and he doubts not that the first news which the people of that neighbourhood will receive of its having been removed by the Earthquake, will be in the receipt of the Raleigh paper containing the wonderful account.-The gentleman who furnishes us with this correction, resides in Hawkin's County, Tennessee, where the Earthquake of the 16th was felt, but from which no injury was sustained.
Recommended Citation
"“A gentleman from Tennessee...”" (1812). New Madrid Compendium Far-Field Database. 306.
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/cas-ceri-new-madrid-compendium/306
